Mind Over Matters Episodes

Sustainability Segment: Ingrid E. Newkirk

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Guest Ingrid E. Newkirk, Cofounder and President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), speaks with Diane Horn about animal rights.

Sustainability Segment: Jeff Aken and McKayla Dunfey

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Guests Jeff Aken, Principle Planner, and McKayla Dunfey, Commute Programs Assistant, Cascade Bicycle Club, speak with Diane Horn about the City of Seattle's 2014 Bicycle Master Plan.

Sustainability Segment: Kristen Boyles

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Guest Kristen Boyles, Staff Attorney, Northwest Office of Earthjustice, speaks with Diane Horn about how the Endangered Species Act has worked to protect species and their habitat in the Pacific Northwest.

Sustainability Segment: Jennifer Weiland

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Guest Jennifer Weiland, Public Space Manager, Seattle Department of Transportation, speaks with Diane Horn about the benefits of parklets, small segments of right-of-way that have been converted from private automobile use to public space.

Sustainability Segment: Jennifer Barnes

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Guest Jennifer Barnes, Cofounder of Biomimicy Puget Sound, speaks with Diane Horn about the Seattle Urban Greenprint, a biomimicry-inspried project that identifies ways to strengthen ecological systems in urban centers.

Sustainability Segment: William Easterly

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Guest William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of NYU's Development Research Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about his book “The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor”.

Sustainability Segment: April Putney and Andrew Austin

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Guests April Putney, Campaign Manager for Move King County Now and Statewide Policy and Advocacy Campaign Manager for Futurewise, and Andrew Austin, Policy Director for the Transportation Choices Coalition, speak with Diane Horn about Proposition 1, a measure to support a King County Transportation District with a $60 per year license fee and .1% sales tax to help fund Metro bus service and county road safety and maintenance.

Sustainability Segment: Mark Gerome Walters

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Guest Mark Gerome Walters, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, speaks with Diane Horn about his book “Seven Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them.”

Sustainability Segment: Stephanie Seliga-Soulseed and Brian Sellers Petersen

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Guests Stephanie Seliga-Soulseed, Founder and Director, Just Garden Project, a program of Seattle Tilth, and Brian Sellers Petersen, leader of the Just Garden Project's Food and Faith Initiative, speak with Diane Horn about the work of the Just Garden Project to build a just food system and a culture of gardening for all people.

Sustainability Segment: Greg Fogel and Sarah Hackney

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Guests Greg Fogel, Senior Policy Specialist, and Sarah Hackney, Grassroots Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, speak with Diane Horn about the 2014 Farm Bill.

Sustainability Segment: Kathy Pelish and Frank Calma

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Guests Kathy Pelish, President, and Frank Calma, Vice-President and Skipper, Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, speak with Diane Horn about the Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, which relies on wind and tide to transport locally produced goods around Puget Sound.

Sustainability Segment: Elizabeth Kolbert

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Guest Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at The New Yorker, speaks with Diane Horn about about her book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”.